Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror

Lincoln Michel

The stories are uniformly short, which means you can read the book in one spooky sitting, or spread the scares out.

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The Ancestor

Danielle Trussoni

Alberta ”Bert” Monte receives a mysterious letter informing her that she's the sole heiress to a house in remote Northern Italy.

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Afterland

Lauren Beukes

The fast-paced novel is set in a world ravaged by a virus—one that only affected men.

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I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir

Jennifer Finney Boylan

We've all seen movies about haunted houses–but what's it like to live in one?

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Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier

Rebecca de Winter doesn't haunt the book's narrator; rather, her memory, which lives on in the lives of Manderley's residents, does.

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The Hunger

Alma Katsu

The Hunger is centered on the doomed Donner party, who resorted to cannibalism after becoming trapped while journeying West via covered wagon.

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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Carmen Maria Machado

A National Book Award finalist, this collection of short stories by Carmen Maria Machado muddies the distinctions between genres such as psychological realism, science fiction, fantasy, comedy, and horror.

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Bleeding Edge

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon's novel, Bleeding Edge, is a detective story set against the backdrop of the September 11 attacks in New York City, and the changing landscape of the world with the Internet.

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NOS4A2

Joe Hill

Joe Hill, the son of Stephen King, rewrote the Nosferatu vampire myth with this clever book.

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Get in Trouble

Kelly Link

Each of Kelly Link's short stories is a trip off the plane of our reality, and into a more fascinating and off-kilter universe.

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The Year of the Witching

Alexis Henderson

When Immanuelle comes of age, she begins to learn that her birthright involves witches, runes, and the kind of power only she can harness.

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Welcome to the Monkey House

Jr. Kurt Vonnegut

"Harrison Bergeron," one of the stories in the collection, takes place in 2081, in a futurist society where "equality laws" are established to regulate intelligence, athleticism, and beauty.

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